Swansea City Opera Takes LAKME on Tour

Swansea City Opera visits Sherman Cymru in Cardiff on 07/03/2017 with Lakmé following their highly acclaimed 2016 tour of La bohème.

This jewel of an opera is best known for the famous 'Flower Duet', which has become one of the most familiar numbers any composer, in any genre, has ever written, even used by our national airline on TV ads as the peaceful accompaniment to a jetliner floating through wispy clouds!

As so often with operas that become famous for a tune however, Lakmé contains many other hidden musical gems including the stratospheric and challenging 'Bell Song'.

Like other French operas of the period, it captures the ambience of the Orient seen through Western eyes and, topically for today, tells of religious tensions and conflict leading to personal sacrifice, heartbreak and death.

Swansea City Opera are setting their production of Lakmé in India during the Raj of the 1880's, sung in English and accompanied by chamber orchestra. Like Delibes' music for his famous ballet Coppelia, the orchestral scoring for Lakmé is delicious and as the opera remains a relative rarity, don't miss this golden opportunity to hear and see this ravishing piece.

Cast:

Lakme- Madalina Barbu

Lakme- Hannah Sawle

Mallika- Katarzyna Balejko

Gerald- Luke Sinclair

Gerald- Daniel Joy

Nilakantha- Hakan Vramsmo

Frederic- Mark Saberton

Ellen- Georgina Stalbow

Rose- Jessica Robinson

Mistress Bentson- Rhonda Browne

Hadji- Bo Wang

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Lakmé Tour Dates

23/02/2017 PALACE THEATRE- Paignton

28/02/2017 THEATRE BY THE LAKE - Keswick

01/03/2017 QUEEN ETHELBURGA'S COLLEGE - York

03/03/2017 THEATRE SEVERN - Shrewsbury

07/03/2017 SHERMAN CYMRU - Cardiff

11/03/2017 THEATRE ROYAL - Bury St Edmunds

15/03/2017 THEATRE ROYAL - Winchester

17/03/2017 BOROUGH THEATRE - Abergavenny

01/04/2017 THE TOWN HALL - Maesteg

07/04/2017 THE TALIESIN - Swansea

20/04/2017 THE OCTAGON THEATRE - Yeovil

23/04/2017 THE PALACE THEATRE - Mansfield

05/05/2017 HarroGate Theatre - Harrogate

06/05/2017 MIDDLESBROUGH THEATRE - Middlesbrough

07/05/2017 NEW WOLSEY THEATRE - Ipswich

12/05/2017 NEUADD DWYFOR - Pwllheli

13/05/2017 UCHELDRE THEATRE - Holyhead

27/05/2017 TORCH THEATRE - Milford Haven